Chief Engineer

Overview

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At Bankwest we're re-building banking, human at heart, yet powered by engineering excellence. We're searching for the most visionary Chief Engineers to shape the next evolution of our digital banking experience.

Why Perth

Relocating to Perth offers a lifestyle upgrade, known for its stunning natural beauty, relaxed pace, and vibrant community. It's the ideal environment for engineering leaders seeking career development opportunities paired with iconic natural beauty, a Mediterranean climate and a lower cost of living.

What You'll Be Doing

Reporting directly to the CIO, you'll be more than a technology leader. You'll have the platform and influence to build, shape, and scale the future of our tech ecosystem. Driving innovation through emerging technologies, AI capability and world class engineering practices – helping us to become Australia's favourite digital bank.

• Partner with Senior Leadership to design overall tech direction, advise and influence on technologies and complex integration strategies, and AI enablement
• Oversee the migration of modern tooling, decommission outdated systems, building a scalable, reliable, and secure ecosystem
• Implement solutions to complex group wide problems, enabling efficiencies and smart automation
• Champion and embed a strong culture of DevSecOps and full-cycle engineering, where engineers use their creative mindset to design and build the best software solutions for our customers

We want to hear from tech leaders who are:

• Strategic Senior Technology Leaders, who bring deep hands-on expertise across software & platform engineering, architecture, cloud, and AI integration
• Confident influencers with the ability to shape C-suite thinking
• Bold in platform modernisation strategies, experienced in leveraging AI (GenAI/Agentic AI) based solutions to build smart automation and efficiency
• Will bring a technology product mindset and expertise, and passion for delivering large scale impact

Working with us

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace. One where we're driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day. Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We're hiring technologists from across all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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Advertising End Date: 13/09/2025

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

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